Omnivore
Vetting Kavanaugh
Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Berkeley): Fighting for the Constitution. Who is Bill Burck? Meet the former Bush attorney vetting Kavanaugh documents. What would you ask Brett Kavanaugh? We asked legal scholars that question about the Supreme Court nominee. What’s Brett Kavanaugh hiding? Republicans are clearly worried about nominee’s hidden records. How Brett Kavanaugh would transform the Supreme Court. Brett Kavanaugh may soon unshackle all rich political donors. The Second Redemption Court: The Supreme
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Paper Trail
The Outline has laid off six employees, including the site’s two staff writers, Fast Company reports. “This news is not fun. It sucks to cut good people,” editor Joshua Topolsky told the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Mullin. “But it is incredibly important to build something sustainable.” “American democracy requires a functioning press that informs …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
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Daily Review
The Souls of Yellow Folk
The first piece in The Souls of Yellow Folk, the collection of Wesley Yang’s journalism, goes in with a bang. “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” Yang’s 2008 essay on the mass shooter of Virginia Tech, is a remarkable attempt to trace the author’s kinship with a young man who, … 
- My Struggle: Book Six
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Interviews
Chelsea Hodson
In the autobiographical essays that make up her debut collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson examines the chaotic and bewildering experience of being an American woman and artist. At first glance, some essays resemble a well-curated Twitter feed— like the single-line, stream-of-consciousness observations found in “The End of Longing”—but Hodson offers much more than aphoristic quips: She delves deeply into themes such as longing, desire, performance, and voyeurism.
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- IT IS ONE THING to write down the shameful truth of what you really think about someone …
- Two Southern belles on the run get catcalled one too many times by the same schlubby …
- The first piece in The Souls of Yellow Folk, the collection of Wesley Yang’s journalism, …
- The cover of the catalogue for Vija Celmins’s recent exhibitions at Matthew Marks …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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